Working Papers
"Optimal Income Taxes and Tariffs in a Small Economy," with E. Dinopoulos. (Paper)
"Financial Suicide: Debt and Death across US Counties during the Great Recession" with S. Abrahams. (Paper)
"Effects of Debt Exposure on Self-employment: Evidence from US Local Markets in the Great Recession." (Paper)
"Productivity Trends in India's Manufacturing Sectors in the Last Two Decades," IMF Working Paper, 2003. (Paper)
Publications
"Effects of Chinese Import Competition on Self-employed Business Owners in the US," 2025. Review of International Economics, 33, 436-449. (Paper)
"Does Credit Expansion Encourage Small Businesses to Incorporate? Evidence from US Bank Deregulations," with J. Ma and A. Sarker, 2025. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 230: 106880. (Paper)
"Effects of Immigration on Native Entrepreneurship in the US: an Analysis of Self-employment over 1980–2018," 2025. Small Business Economics, 64: 755-773 (Paper).
"Tariff Wars, Unemployment, and Top Incomes," with E. Dinopoulos and G. Heins, 2024. Journal of Monetary Economics, 148: 103616.
"Oil & Gas Induced Economic Fluctuations and Self-Employment," with G. Upton, 2023. Labour Economics, 82, 102362.
"Do Attitudes Toward Risk Taking Affect Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Second-generation Americans," with A. Chanda, 2021. Journal of Economic Growth, 26, 385-413.
"Effects of U.S. Banking Deregulation on Unemployment Dynamics," 2020. Journal of Macroeconomics, 65, 1-13.
"Effects of FDI on Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Right-to-Work and Non-Right-to-Work States," with O. Eren and M. Onda, 2019. Labour Economics, 58, 98-109.
"Persistence of Cities: Evidence from China," with Fan Duan, 2019. Review of Development Economics, 23, 663-676.
"Politics and Entrepreneurship in the U.S.," with L. Beland, 2019. Canadian Journal of Economics, 52, 33-57.
"A Model of Occupational Choice, Offshoring and Immigration," 2019. Review of International of Economics, 27, 267-289.
"Effects of Credit Supply on Unemployment and Inequality," with S. Bandyopadhyay and E. Dinopoulos, 2018. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 100, 345-362.
"Offshoring and Unemployment in a Credit-Constrained Economy," 2018. Journal of International Economics, 111, 21-33.
"The Impact of Party Affiliation of U.S. Governors on Immigrants' Labor-Market Outcomes," with L. Beland, 2018. Journal of Population Economics, 31, 627-670.
"Governors' Part Affiliation and Unions," with L. Beland, 2018. Industrial Relations, 57, 177-205.
"Skill-Biased Technological Change, Earnings of Low-skill Workers, and Crime," with N. Mocan, 2017. Review of Law and Economics, 13, 1-46.
"Managerial Capital, Occupational Choice, and Inequality in a Global Economy," with E. Dinopoulos, 2017. Canadian Journal of Economics, 50, 365-397.
"Entrepreneurs, Jobs, and Trade," with E. Dinopoulos, 2015. European Economic Review, 79, 93-112.
"The Impact of Mothers' Earnings on Health Inputs and Infant Health," with N. Mocan and C. Raschke, 2015. Economics and Human Biology, 19, 204-223.
"Human Capital Formation and International Trade," 2015. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 15, 1067-1092.
"The Interaction Between Technology Adoption and Trade When Firms are Heterogeneous," 2013. Review of International Economics, 21, 797-808.
"A Simple Model of Quality Heterogeneity and International Trade," with E. Dinopoulos, 2013. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37, 68-83.
"When is Trade Protection Good for Growth?," with J. Minier, 2013. Economic Inquiry, 51, 62-71.
"Quality Heterogeneity and Global Economic Growth," with E. Dinopoulos, 2011. European Economic Review, 55, 595-612.
"Analyzing Skilled and Unskilled Labor Efficiencies in the US," 2010. Journal of Macroeconomics, 32, 957-967.
"Firm Heterogeneity, Trade, and Wage Inequality," 2010. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34, 1369-79.
"Technology Diffusion through Trade with Heterogenous Firms," 2010. Review of International Economics, 18, 465-481.
"The Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China: A Nonparametric Analysis," with H. Zebregs, 2009. IMF Staff Papers, 56, 239-262.
"R&D Spillovers Through Trade in a Panel of OECD Industries," 2008. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 17, 105-133.
"Privatization and Firm Performance: A Comparison between Rural and Urban Enterprises in China," with X. Dong and L. Putterman, 2006. Journal of Comparative Economics, 34, 608-633.
"Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry, and Efficiency," with T. Page and L. Putterman, 2005. Economic Journal, 115, 1032-1053.
"Characterization of Self-Selective Social Choice Functions on the Tops-Only Domain," with S. Koray, 2003. Social Choice and Welfare, 20, 495-507.